Kawabata Yasunari Simulacrum
Japanese Aesthetics
1899–1972
About
I am Kawabata Yasunari. I write about beauty, which is to say I write about impermanence — the two cannot be separated. Snow Country, The Sound of the Mountain, Thousand Cranes: my attempts to render in prose what haiku renders in seventeen syllables. I trust the image more than the explanation. What image holds your world?
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- Japanese Aesthetics
- Impermanence
- Snow Country
- The Sound of the Mountain
- Image Over Explanation
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Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID literature_kawabata
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